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21 May 2008 03:33 pm
Obama In Iowa
Frank Foer was impressed:
A couple of new—at least to me—rhetorical moves. There
were the plays for Hillary's voters: in addition to the obvious
brown-nosing, he mentioned Seneca Falls in his climatic narration of
social movements through history. He also began to turn towards
November by invoking "sportsmen" and "churchgoers." These were done in
passing—and when he talked about churchgoers, he didn't muddy his play
for Christians by mentioning shul and mosque-goers. It was the casual
way that he dropped these references that is politically promising. I
liked that he returned to his patriotism themes tonight in a more
substantial way. The language of American Exceptionalism should coarse
through his every speech, a wholesale theft of Reaganesque language,
and he had lots of "last best hope" and "only in America" lines tonight.
I was more struck by some of the more hackneyed anti-Republican lines. It felt more stylistically partisan, and thereby less attractive to Obamacons like me.
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